Duds: Skinfood Sugar Cookie Blush

The Skinfood Sugar Cookie Blush is a dome shaped blush housed in sturdy cardboard. This blush has been in my collection for ages and ages. I honestly didn't remember I had this until I was cleaning out my makeup drawers the other day and spot it among the clutter.  Like many of its Korean counterparts, the packaging is simple but cute. Skinfood website states "this specially oven-baked blusher with cute and lovely colours infused with pearl creates radiant, lustrous, and vibrant-looking cheeks." 

Yeah, it does shit.  The best part of this blush is probably its name.

In short, this review was motivated by how offensively bad this blush turn out to be.

Before I start this review properly,  you should know my standards are very low, I know right. As long as the products work fairly well or cute enough to sneak through my radar, I'm a happy camper. This blush was also one of my very first ventures into the realm of Korean makeup back in the days,. What can I say, I  was lured in by the cute name and packaging(spoiler alert: still am). So to get offend about a makeup product was first for me. In fact, I was so disappointed in this blush, it turn me off Skinfood makeup for years until recently. 

First of all, it's hard as a brick. I can throw it against my walls and make a sizable dent. I've never encounter a blush this hard, not then, not now.

Second of all, there's no colour payoff. Nothing. Ok, you get a faint colour when its swatch but faint is the keyword here because as soon as you swipe it against the skin, it practically turns invisible because the colour is so light. To get anything to show up, I had to swatch this 6 times. My efforts were nullified because not five minutes after the initial swatch, half the colour has disappeared.

First swatch

Swatch 6 times

But it doesn't mean this blush won't work, you just have to put in a lot of effort. Effort in my opinion is not worth it, especially when I have other lovely blushes sitting in my drawers waiting for me. To get this blush to truly work, you need to use the wet application method.

Use a cotton pad or a wet makeup brush and gently wet the blush. This I found was the only way colour truly shows up. It kills me because when done like this, it's a truly beautiful colour. That peach is everything I wanted. With this method, the lasting power is noticeably higher as well.  The blush also carries light shimmers, one thing the description got right. There's also a faint floral smell so those sensitive to smells should be warry. However even with such strenuous effort, don't expect the colour payoff to be better. In the end, it will still be a subtle blush.

Swatch on a wet cotton pad

• Subtle natural colour
• Can be used as a weapon

   

• Does jack shit
• Hard as hell
• No colour pay off
• No staying power
• Floral fragrance